Associate Professor Sean Foley from Middle Tennessee State University holds a Visiting Fellowship at CAIS for a period of eight weeks from June to August 2014.

Dr Foley is an American professor of Middle East and Islamic studies in Tennessee and is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australia National University. He speaks Arabic and Bahasa Malaysian, has published widely, and has delivered public presentations to audiences around the world.  He has also held Fulbright fellowships in Syria, Turkey, and Malaysia. He is the author of The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010). From April 2013 until February 2014, he lived and researched extensively in Saudi Arabia for a new book on the Kingdom entitled A Kingdom of Many Colors. His website is www.seanfoley.org.

A/Prof. Foley is will hold a ANU public lecture on 7 August entitled No Woman, No Drive: How a new generation of artists are transforming Saudi Arabia. ( Further details to be advised)